Thursday, January 28, 2016

ICH | Russian President Vladimir Putin said that in an interview (part 1 and
part 2) with Germany’s Das Bild, published on January 11th, but the
press has ignored this very serious charge – an accusation of
deception, bad faith, outright lying, on the part of the US President.

Here is the historical record:

On 17 September 2009, the White House issued «Remarks by the President
on Strengthening Missile Defense in Europe». He said there: «This new
ballistic missile defense program will best address the threat posed by
Iran's ongoing ballistic missile defense program… Our clear and
consistent focus has been the threat posed by Iran's ballistic missile
program, and that continues to be our focus and the basis of the
program that we're announcing today».

All the rest of Putin’s account is likewise entirely accurate.

US President Barack Obama lied, about a very important matter. The
people calling him out on it should be more than just the Russian
President. This is an issue – World War III – that affects the entire
world.

There is no issue that’s more serious than this. But, where is the press on it?

Only one English-language site carried Bild’s English-language
translation – the rabidly anti-Russian Business Insider, which was
founded by the Wall Street fraudster, Henry Blodget. Wikipedia says of
him: «In 2002, then New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer
published Merrill Lynch e-mails in which Blodget gave assessments about
stocks which allegedly conflicted with what was publicly published. In
2003, he was charged with civil securities fraud by the US Securities
and Exchange Commission. He agreed to a permanent ban from the
securities industry and paid a $2 million fine plus a $2 million
disgorgement». His site’s headline for this article was «Putin defends
Russia's recent aggression, blames US and Europe for rising tensions».
The headline for the same article at Bild was: «PUTIN THE INTERVIEW:
‘For me, it is not borders that matter.’»

The Blodget site posted five reader-comments to the interview: all were
rabidly anti-Putin, such as, «The man is a Machiavellian sociopath.
Just what Russia has always had, and probably needs»; nothing was
commented about the lie that Putin alleged to have been asserted by
Obama. All of them ignored it.

In other words, there was no press-coverage of the US President’s lie.
Obama had asserted a globally mega-important lie, which displays
Obama’s building up toward a war between the United States and Russia,
and doing it under the false pretext that the US is preparing for a war
against Iran (instead of for a nuclear WWIII against what is actually
the world’s other major nuclear power, Russia – and while constantly
demonizing and lying about Russia’s leader); Putin called the US
President on that single mega-lie, and the press ignored this entire
mega-important matter, which could end in global annihilation.